Quotes by Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

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But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what the — Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
The willingness to undertake such action cannot be based on certainties, but on those possibilities glimpsed in a readin — Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of a — Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and tha — Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world. — Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each — Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
That chain of relationships made me think of how connections are made--you read a book, you meet a person, you have a si — Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act. — Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, — Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives. — Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special peopl — Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
You can't be neutral on a moving train. — Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever t — Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predict — Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not a — Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
The courtroom is one instance of the fact that while our society may be liberal and democratic in some large and vague s — Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims o — Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives who talked of how, in — Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, — Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened so — Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times